legerity (luh-JER-i-tee) adjective

   Nimbleness; agility.

[From French légèreté, from léger (light), from Vulgar Latin leviarius,
from Latin levis (light).]
 
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  "I began to follow at the same rate, but immediately slackened speed for
   fear that Watts-Dunton behind us might be embittered at sight of so much
   youth and legerity."
   Henry Maximilian Beerbohm; No. 2 The Pines; 1914.

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